Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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Maximum temperature acceptable by a CPU
Even if you don’t go the the extremes of CPU overclocking, you may sometimes wonder whether your CPU is too hot or not. For example, my own Athlon XP 2600+ currently displays 62°C. Is it too much? Chris Hare comes to our help with his table of CPU characteristics. You will find there (among other…
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Acronis True Image as a free download
Acronis True Image is one of the best disk utilities of the market: Like Norton Ghost it allows to make a full-image copy of one hard disk drive and to restore it later in one pass. Unfortunately, up to now, it was a little expensive at $49.95. did you know that a lot of us…
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Google crazy
You really want to have a personalized Google and to have a gaga one? Go to google.com, then in the address bar copy the following text: javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.images; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position=’absolute’; DIS.left=Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5; DIS.top=Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5}R++}setInterval(‘A()’,5); void(0); Press the Enter key. Enjoy!
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Visit a motherboard factory
If you never entered a electronics plant, seeing how one of the biggest PC motherboard manufacturer builds them may be interesting. ECS Factory Tour – How A Motherboard Is Made
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Very nice graphic textures
A graphic designer, a web site designer often need to find a reliable source for graphic data and more specifically for graphic textures. Here comes an excellent small web site: In-Texture.com bring a very rich collection of graphic (and photographic) textures that are available for free. And a few very nice samples!
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National Geographic’s photos
National Geographic’s environment photos & wallpapers.
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Miracle cure to clean up your photos
It’s a bane for photographers: There is always a little detail in the picture that we would like to remove. If it is an ugly little spot your best graphics suite will do. If it is something much more annoying (a fence, people, etc.), it may be a near to impossible task. Now, if you…
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Japanese flora
BibliOdyssey, as usual, presents one more impressive antique book: Ten albums of Japanese flora containing more than 700 images from the Museum at the University of Tokyo: honzo database (English home page).